
The Tsinghua University – University of Chicago Joint Research Center for Economics, in collaboration with the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics in China (BFI-China), the National Institute for Fiscal Studies (NIFS) and School of Economics and Management (SEM) at Tsinghua University, will host a virtual seminar series to inspire research and discussion on public policy issues relating to China. Focusing on a wide range of topics in public economics, the seminar will be a premier forum for frontier economic research and dialogue on Chinese economic issues.
Past Seminars (Spring 2023)
5/11 Speaker: Kate Smith
Topic: Capital Taxation and Entrepreneurship
4/20 Speaker: Cristóbal Otero
Topic: Managers and Public Hospital Performance
Past Seminars (Fall 2022)
12/22 Speaker: Camille Landais
Topic: Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States
12/8 Speaker: Erik Hurst
Topic: Task Based Discrimination
11/24 Speaker: John N. Friedman
Topic: How Did COVID-19 and Stabilization Policies Affect Spending and Employment? A New Real-Time Economic Tracker Based on Private Sector Data.
11/10 Speaker: Mark Duggan
Topic: The Decline of Public Hospitals in the U.S.
10/27 Speaker: Alan Auerbach
Topic: Demand Stimulus as Social Policy
10/13 Speaker: Janet M. Currie
Topic: Doing More with Less: Predicting Primary Care Provider Effectiveness
Past Seminars (Spring 2022)
6/15 Speaker: Nano Barahona
Topic: Food Labeling: Effects of Information on Nutrition and Health
6/1 Speaker: Jose Ignacio Cuesta
Topic: Quality Regulation and Competition: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Markets
5/18 Speaker: Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant
Topic: Asset-Price Redistribution
5/5 Speaker: Allan Hsiao
Topic: Educational Investment in Spatial Equilibrium: Evidence from Indonesia
4/20 Speaker: Francesco Agostinelli
Topic: On the Spatial Determinants of Educational Access
4/6 Speaker: Michael Dinerstein
Topic: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Provision in Education Markets: Evidence from a Public-School Expansion Program
Past Seminars (2021)
12/9 Speaker: Owen Zidar
11/11 Speaker: David M. Cutler
Topic: Survival of the City
10/28 Speaker: Liran Einav
Topic: Customers and Retail Growth
10/14 Speaker: Benjamin A. Olken
9/29 Speaker: Henrik Kleven
9/15 Speaker: Austan Goolsbee
Topic: Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline